Sunday, January 5, 2014

Perfection

So I have noticed that different people have different things that they must have perfect. It annoys them when they aren't. Some people have to have things perfectly cleaned or all the cupboards all the way closed. Others have to have their sewing projects perfect or their bookcases uncluttered and all lined up. I assume that most people have something they have to have perfect even if it is not immediately evident.
So do you want to read what mine is?
As some of you know I don't care if there is a bit of clutter around, or if there are water spots on the mirror or if the wall hangings are cutesy. But, I really don't like stuff around that I have made that looks junky. It bugs me. I want the stuff I make to look professional and nice. Whether it is a wooden outside nativity set or a painting or something else. When I was in Activity Girls (a church group for 8-11 year olds) I was given a ceramic nativity set to paint. We could choose a realistic looking set or one where all the characters are bears. I choose the bears, and now looking back I believe it was because the bears were less intimidating. It doesn't look quite as bad to have badly painted teddy bears as it would to have badly painted "realistic" people. Anyway, needless to say every December they drive me crazy because I see them and think those are so ugly, and really poorly done. Especially when my older sister had done one of them (so there was one king that looked nice). So this year, I tried to remedy the situation, I repainted almost all of them (I didn't finish doing 2 of them, and I left the one my sister had done but I started), and now it doesn't bug me when I walk by them.
Happy New Years, by the way.
 Before (and it doesn't show the details of how bad it was)
After

1 comment:

  1. It probably wasn't meant to but this made me laugh.
    Badly painted bears indeed! And why did you save mine? I don't even remember them at all!

    You probably already know but I want my house (and especially my counters) to be more or less clutter free at some point during the day. Preferably from the time the kids go to bed to the time they wake up. The funny thing about this is that while growing up I cluttered every single horizontal space with 'cutesy' things. Ugh.

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